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S. G. PEUGHEN. APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING PETROLEUM OR OTHER LIQUIDS. No. 531,560.

Patented Dec. 25,1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

STANLEYO. PEUOHEN, OFTORONTO, OANADA,-ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF To PETER CLARKE, OF sAME PLAoE.

\ I APPARATUS FOR VAPORIZING PETROLEUM OR OTHER LIQUIDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,560, dated December 25, 18914. 1

Application filedDecember 26,1893. Serial No 494,713- (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY GooPER PEU- CHEN, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a certain new and Improved Apparatus for Vaporizing Petroleum and other Liquids, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to vaporize petroleum or other liquids with rapidity and economy of heat, and it consists, essentially, of an adjustable float sustaining plates of car- ,bon or other resisting media below and near the surface of the oil or other liquid to be vaporized and at a suitable distance apart and connected by wires to the positive and containing the petroleum. B, is a draining or outlet pipe at the bottom provided with a cock I). O, is a vapor pipe through which the petroleum vapor may -pass. D, is the petroleum or other liquid which is to be vaporized, and E, is the float, and F, and G, are the carbon plates, thecarbon plate F, being connected with the positive pole of the battery by the wire H, and the carbon plate G, with the negative pole by the wire I. These Wires are sufficiently slack to permit the float E, to rise on the oil to the top of the still when it is full of oil and to sink toward the bottom as the petroleum becomes vaporized. The wires H, and I, are passed through the still, A, by means of the plugs K, and L,

' through a core of celluloid or some other insulatin g material.

In Fig. 2, the float E, is shown preferably as a hollow metal ball with a sleeve M, through which a stem N, passes. This stem may be threaded and provided with a nut n, so as to render the float adjustable and regulate the distance of the carbon plates from the surface of the oil. This stem is attached to a plate 0, preferably of porcelain, to which the carbon plates F, and G, are also attached. The wire H, is shown attached to the bottom of plate F, and the wire I, tothe top of the plate G, so as to cause the carbon plates to be bet ter heated. When the battery is in operation, the carbon plates become intensely heated, causing the top of the petroleum to throw off vapor which is conveyed away by the pipe 0, to the filter or condenser.

Q, is an inlet pipe through which the still may be replenished with the oil or other liquid-which isbeing vaporized.

On account of the heated plates being kept near the top of the still by means of the float, only the upper portion of the petroleum or other liquidis heated, the remainder of the petroleum or other liquid remaining comparatively cool, thus effecting a great economy of heat, and rendering vaporization easier, all the heat being concentrated in the upper portion of the liquid, which alone is heated to the boiling point; whereas if heat were applied at the bottom portion of the still, as in the usual method, the whole of the liquid vapor is thrown ofi. I

A man-hole P, is provided to get access to the interior of the still so as to get at the float and carbon plates, and to remove the viscous matter which may gather at the bottom of the still. A

This method of vaporizing is of course applicable to a variety of liquids. The size and distance of the plates apart from each other also varies according to the nature of the fluid in which they are immersed and the strength of the battery.

Instead of employing carbon plates, other resisting media may be employed, or resistance coils of wire (see Fig. 3) or any other electric heatingapparatus maybe substituted.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In an apparatus for vaporizing liquids, a still to contain the liquid to be operated on, an electric heating apparatus for acting on said liquid, means for suspending said electric heating apparatus near the surface of the liquid, and wires connected with said heating apparatus and with the still at about the center of the latter, whereby said heating apparatus may rise and fall equally above and below the center of said still substantially as described.

2. The still A, adjusted for filling with petroleum or other liquid and supplied with inlet and outlet vapor pipes, in combination with an adj ustable float E, which carries the carbon plates F, and G, suspended near the surface of the petroleum or other liquid, and wires H, and I, connecting the said carbon plates with the poles of a battery, substantially as specified.

3. The adjustable float E, provided with sleeve M, and adapted to float on the surface of the liquid to be vaporized,in combination plates F, and G, battery wires H, and I, and

insulating plugs K, and L, substantially as 25 specified.

Toronto, December 21, 1893.

STANLEY C. PEUUI-IEN.

In presence of- A. M. NEFF, FRED CLARKE. 

